These Were The Most Popular Baby Names In 1970

Baby name popularity lists look pretty similar from year to year, but interesting trends emerge over longer periods of time.

The Social Security Administration’s baby names database reveals which names have fallen off the map over the years, which have risen from obscurity to dominate the charts, and which have ebbed and flowed in different periods.

HuffPost took a look at the data to examine the most popular baby names 50 years ago. While names like James, William, Elizabeth and Amy remain popular today, others like Tammy, Dawn and Craig don’t appear on as many birth certificates half a century later. 

Without further ado, here are the 50 most popular baby names for boys and girls born in 1970.

Girls

1. Jennifer
2. Lisa
3. Kimberly
4. Michelle
5. Amy
6. Angela
7. Melissa
8. Tammy
9. Mary
10. Tracy
11. Julie
12. Karen
13. Laura
14. Christine
15. Susan
16. Dawn
17. Stephanie
18. Elizabeth
19. Heather
20. Kelly
21. Tina
22. Shannon
23. Lori
24. Patricia
25. Cynthia
26. Pamela
27. Sandra
28. Wendy
29. Rebecca
30. Nicole
31. Michele
32. Donna
33. Deborah
34. Teresa
35. Christina
36. Denise
37. Sharon
38. Linda
39. Maria
40. Brenda
41. Barbara
42. Stacy
43. Andrea
44. Cheryl
45. Kathleen
46. Rhonda
47. Debra
48. Stacey
49. Tonya
50. Nancy

Boys 

1. Michael
2. James
3. David
4. John
5. Robert
6. Christopher
7. William
8. Brian
9. Mark
10. Richard
11. Jeffrey
12. Scott
13. Jason
14. Kevin
15. Steven
16. Joseph
17. Thomas
18. Eric
19. Daniel
20. Timothy
21. Charles
22. Anthony
23. Paul
24. Matthew
25. Kenneth
26. Gregory
27. Stephen
28. Todd
29. Ronald
30. Donald
31. Edward
32. Andrew
33. Patrick
34. Shawn
35. Gary
36. Douglas
37. Sean
38. Keith
39. Craig
40. George
41. Troy
42. Jonathan
43. Larry
44. Peter
45. Jerry
46. Dennis
47. Bradley
48. Frank
49. Raymond
50. Jeffery